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Article #621300Re: Old word processors
From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:43
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:43
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:20:40 -0500 Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: > More advanced and more involved software was called "desktop publishing" > software instead of being called a word processor. There was much > overlap in the two types of software. Desktop publishing software was generally about making single pages with as much sophistication as possible. Word processing software was generally about making short documents. Typesetting software was generally about making books. Each job had its own specialisations, DTP software didn't do pagination but could fit text to curves, WP software didn't grok chapters or facing pages but did do mailmerge, ... These days word processors are supposed to do it all AFAICT. Personally if it looks like DTP I use dia or xfig[1], otherwise troff or LaTeX but my needs are simple. [1] If it needs more sophistication than that it needs someone better at it than me. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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